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Re: questions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: questions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:44:14 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
Hello again,
Ralf has told me that I should be more careful about
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. Though it sounds weird, the possibility to call
it with an absolute directory name is documented, so I cannot remove
the comment. (And I think it's not worth the hassle to `obsolete'
this feature.)
The rest of my previous mail still holds:
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:05:52PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 02:55:51PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Why get rid of ac_macro_dir entirely? Is it harmful? (or pointless? :-)
>
> I believe it is pointless; no one uses it, and I cannot see any
> reason why one would need it at configure time.
>
> Attached please find an updated version of the patch.
>
> Paul, I also suggest to edit your changelog entry, because I cannot
> imagine a case where the macro dir is an absolute path. That would
> effectively mean that the distribution does not contain all primary
> sources, and we should not encourage that.
>
> OK to commit?
Stepan
autoconf-20060913-aux-dirs2.patch
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